Wednesday, March 25, 2009

"Man on Pink Corner" seemed similar to Monk Eastman in that it reminded my of a classic Western, sort of mob/ gangster scene. There is a lot of talk about killing and blood. I am guessing that just like Monk Eastman and Hakim, the characters are true but the story is somewhat exaggerates. Something that I really like from the short stories Jorge Luis Borges writes is his strong sense of culture. It is evident in Man on Pink Corner through the dances, for example. Also, throughout, Borges objectifies women a lot, which is another part of old Spanish culture. I was wondering what the stars next to words like "Maldonado," "Morel's Men," and "gutted him" means.

"Et Certa," the first section 'A Theologian in Death' i thought was really interesting how it ends metaphorically in representing death. Again, Borges' strong sense of culture, here representing religion through his writing. Same with the section 'The Story of the Two Dreamers.' TO me, his writing so far takes a while to interpurt correctly but is somewhat interesting.

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My name is Diviani Chaudhuri and I am a TA in the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton. I've been pottering about the blogosphere for much of my undergraduate life and so, when I wanted an alternative to Blackboard's blogging tool (which restricts content visibility to only enrolled students), I fell back upon good old blogger to do the job. Sadly, I haven't figured out how to host multiple pages on Blogger (like Wordpress), and Wordpress has a rather tedious procedure to sign up each individual contributor (no bulk invites!), so for the moment, the only way to navigate this page is through the Labels section. If you are looking for a specific keyword though, you can find it easily through the search function on the top left navbar.

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This blog will contain (at the end of this semester) chapter analyses and discussion of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Italo Calvino's If on a Winters Night a Traveler and several short stories authored by Jorge Luis Borges such as "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Book of Sand", "The Library of Babel", "Death and the Compass", "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" to name a few (the entire syllabus can be found here).

This a courseblog created for the students of SUNY Binghamton's Spring09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society class so that, as a part of class preparation, each student can post a reading commentary totaling at least 100 words + discussion questions about the reading for the day without causing a build-up of paper mountains in my cramped TA office.I hope that this shapes up into a sort of introductory resource page for undergrads encountering the texts considered in this blog.